Kyle Bragger

ronwhitman:

“Cutting your dick off.” This is a post about web development clients.

Every so often in my career a client will come to me with a ludicrious request for something that they believe will bring them either extra revenue or web traffic or exposure that I know will completely ruin their business or site.

Now, out of ethics I usually try my hardest to dissuade the client even if I know that the work to do said task and deal with repercussions of said task will bring me plenty of extra $$$ for a long time.

But every so often you get a stubborn client who insists on this really ridiculous plan and you can only just sit back and do it, take the $$ and know that you warned them.

Anyhow something like this happened to me today and I thought of this clip. From now on I’m calling this behavior “cutting your dick off” (for a massive dick-cutting fuckup I call it “invading Iraq”). AKA hastily cutting off your dick to get YouTube hits even though you could’ve just made some funny faces.

I hope that some day this can be entered into permanent web developer jargon. If you are a programmer, please help make this happen.